Mounting for mud-guns.



PATENTED JUNE 30, 1908.

A. J. BRYANT.

MOUNTING FOR MUD GUNS.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 21, 1905.

lo C u C ATTY . P p W ANDREW J. BRYANT, OF SHEFFIELD, ALABAMA.

MOUNTING FOR MUD-GUNS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 30, I908.

Application M August 21, 1905. Serial No. 275,000.

field, in the county of Colbert and State of- Alabama, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mountings forMud- Guns, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in apparatus for mountin furnace mud guns or similar devices and for effecting flexible steam connections therefor.

The improvements consist generally in the arrangement of the steam pi es and in the means for supporting the mu gun so that it can be easily handled. As an element in connection with the steam pipes. I utilize a flexible pipe joint of well known form, and I do not 0 aim the mud-gun as a part of my invention.

In the accompanying drawings :Figure 1 is a view in side elevation showing a mud gun mounted and connected in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2 is a section of one form of flexible ipe-joint employed in my invention, and g form offlexible ipe joint usedby me.

Referring to t e drawings in detail A represents a section of timber, or wall or other upright construction to which the operative parts of my invention are connected. a, a are brackets which are secured to A, extend horizontally therefrom and furnish bearings for the vertical shaft a Loosely mounted on the shaft a is a crane B which swings freely on the shaft, and has a ball bearing at its lower end with the bracket a. From the outer end of the crane depends an arm I) which terminates in a hook b which engages eyes in the upper end of two links b b.

C re resents the first section of a steam hich is connected with any suitable source of steam supply. This pi eis su plied with a hand valve 0 'wltfl suitab e elbows and is connected with the support A and has coupled near itsend a flexible .joint 1: shown in detail in Fig. 3. A horizontal section of pipe c is connected at one end with C by a suitable elbow, and is secured to the top of the crane B by a collar 0. The section 0 terminates in an angular flexible joint 0 which serves as a coupling between the horizontal section a and the vertical pipe section 0. In this latter section a flexible joint 0' is inserted, and the lower end of the i 3 is a sectional view of another pipe communicates with a horizontal pipe section 0 in which are arranged a flexible joint 0 and a hand valve 0. The end of the steam pipe section 0 connects with the mudgun steam cylinder D. This cylinder is suplied with the usual nozzle or spout d, and is also rovided with trunnions d which are enga e by the hooks on the lower ends of the llnks b thus furnishing a swinging suport for the mud-gun. The constructions of the flexible joints 0 and c are clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 3 respectively, and as they are devices in common use and form er 80 no part of my invention, need not be escribed in detail.

From the construction described it will be apparent that the joint connecting the pipe sections C, 0 will permit the crane and t e attached parts to swing freely on the shaft a that the joint 0 will permit the gun to be swung outwardly from the crane, the joint representing the axis; that the joints connecting the pipe sections 0 and 0 will permit the gun to be tilted at any desired angle, and the combination and arrangement of the joints practically provide a universal movement of the gun throughout a wide range thus permitting its easy handling and most effective use.

It will be ap arent that the pipe connections and attac ments shown may be used in mounting steam or pneumatically operated devices of various kinds, hence I do not wish to be limited by my patent to the apparatus as a plied to a furnace mud gun, but

hat I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A mounting and su porting apparatus of the character describefl, comprising a swinging crane having a depending arm, provided with a hook supporting links depending from said hook and adapted to swin 1 both longitudinally and laterall said links having hooks at their lower on s, vertically and horizontally arranged pipes connected with and supported by said crane, and universal pipe joints inserted in said pipes, whereby the latter may be moved in any direction for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I'afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

- ANDREW J. BRYANT.

Witnesses:

D. P. REESE, H. SPIELBERGER. 

